In part one and part two of investigate stories published at website The Gateway Pundit, Sonny Fleeman described how VA liabilities related to post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, could exceed one trillion dollars within the next 10 years.
In the stories, Fleeman described a “cost-related catastrophe within the VA compensation system that is growing at an unsustainable rate.”
That assessment of the VA and its benefits program is Fleeman's own personal view, not the federal government, any employer, or any group or organization, he told American Family News.
As a result of coming forward, Fleeman says he now faces backlash for questioning whether the Veterans Administration will be able to sustain itself in the years ahead. Part of the complaints are related to military veterans and their defenders, he says, who feel stabbed in the back by a story meant to criticize a bureaucratic, mismanaged federal agency.
Those complaints sting hard for Freeman, 43, who is himself a U.S. Army combat veteran after serving two tours in Iraq. After a medical retirement, he has his own struggle with PTSD, which stretches back more than 20 years. So he also benefits from the VA program he is criticizing.
After the stories published at the popular right-leaning website, Fleeman and the story author were blamed in reader comments for the whistleblowing story.
For Fleeman, the readers comments “perfectly illustrate the kind of thinking that keeps people trapped in a false dichotomy,” he told American Family News.
“Who deserves the compensation for PTSD? Is it someone who served multiple combat tours and witnessed the actual horrors of war, or someone who simply says they know someone who died on a tour, having never once been part of a firefight or deployed to a combat zone?” he offered, rhetorically.
What’s equally concerning to him is that — as the data depicts — PTSD is “skyrocketing” in times of peace.
“The refrain of ‘leave us veterans alone’ to focus on the out-of-control expenses associated with aid for illegal immigrants rather than PTSD, for example, is not only misguided, but it’s dangerously short-sighted,” Fleeman told AFN.
“Sadly,” he continues, “it reveals a failure to comprehend that both issues stem from the same corrupt, weaponized government operating against its citizens.”
In an observation that many honest federal employees could make, Fleeman says the Veterans Administration is not simply bureaucratic, bloated and inefficient. It has become a system designed to “foster dependency and expand its own bureaucracy, all while failing the very people it claims to serve.”
And as a result of that bureaucratic mismanagement, Fleeman says millions of our military veterans are “trapped” in a system that relies on a “corrupt” federal agency for their compensation and benefits.
“Meanwhile,” he said, “careless immigration spending becomes an easy scapegoat, conveniently distracting from the real issue: a government that mismanages everything it touches, from veteran care to border policy, while expanding its power through division and dependency.”
Meanwhile, Freeman says frustrated taxpayers “scream at each other” – similar to the reader comments – while our corrupt government wastes our taxes and fails its stated mission, but gains more power and becomes more inefficient.
After years of working with nonprofit organizations in the medical freedom movement, Fleeman said he felt led to sign the Declaration of Military Accountability and become a federal whistleblower.
That decision comes from Fleeman’s Christian faith and the biblical mandate to expose evil and darkness with the truth.
Fleeman also points to the New Testament, to the Apostle Paul’s second letter to Timothy, when the young preacher was warned people often have “itching ears” to hear what pleases them.
“This perfectly describes the world today,” he warned. “As people don’t want truth as much as they want comfort and myths that affirm their biases, even if it means ignoring the uncomfortable realities of a weaponized system designed to exploit them.”
